Cryptocurrency theft lurks behind fake meeting apps
One of the dangers of AI is its use to create fake meeting apps and scam workers in the cryptocurrency sector
Cado Security Labs has pointed out that cybercriminals are using AI to create fake websites and apps through which they recruit victims from the cryptocurrency sector.
Through these fake meeting apps, hackers spread malware to steal personal data, as well as access credentials to “websites, apps and cryptocurrency wallets.”
Scammers create malicious pages and fake social media accounts that are difficult to detect “before contacting potential victims to encourage them to download a meeting app,” according to Tara Gould, Cado’s threat research leader.
An example is the “Meeten” app, although it operates under the name “Meetio” and “regularly changes its name. In the past, it has used names such as Clusee.com, Cuesee, Meeten.gg, Meeten.us, and Meetone.gg.”
Once downloaded, the information stealer called Realst contained in the app “searches for sensitive items such as Telegram login credentials, bank card details, and cryptocurrency wallet information to send to the attackers.”
In addition, it searches for browser cookies and auto-filled credentials from applications such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. In this way, the credentials of the Ledger, Trezor, and Binance wallets are stolen.
“The use of AI allows threat actors to quickly create realistic content for websites, which adds legitimacy to their scams and makes it harder to detect suspicious websites,” the researchers said, highlighting that this attack has been operating for about four months, with versions for macOS and Windows.
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Source: cointelegraph
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